[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 23 (Monday, March 7, 1994)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--AGRICULTURE
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 4, Subcommittee on 
Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies held hearings on 
proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Department of 
Agriculture, receiving testimony from Mike Espy, Secretary; Richard E. 
Rominger, Deputy Secretary; and Stephen B. Dewhurst, Director, Office 
of Budget and Program Analysis, all of the Department of Agriculture.
  Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR/HHS/EDUCATION
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 4, Subcommittee on Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education held hearings on proposed 
budget estimates for fiscal year 1995 for the Departments of Labor, 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, 
receiving testimony from numerous public witnesses.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Wednesday, March 16.
APPROPRIATIONS--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Committee on Appropriations: On Friday, March 4, Subcommittee on VA, 
HUD, and Independent Agencies held hearings on proposed budget 
estimates for fiscal year 1995, receiving testimony in behalf of funds 
for their respective activities from Gen. P.X. Kelley, USMC (Ret.), 
Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission; Steven Dola, Deputy 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Management and Budget (on behalf of 
Army cemeterial expenses); Norman E. D'Amours, Chairman, National 
Credit Union Administration; John J. Adair, Inspector General, 
Resolution Trust Corporation; Andrew C. Hove, Jr., Acting Chairman, 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Jacqueline Jones-Smith, 
Chairman, Consumer Product Safety Commission; Teresa Nasif, Director, 
Consumer Information Center; Polly Baca, Special Assistant to the 
President, and Director, United States Office of Consumer Affairs; 
George Knight, Executive Director, Neighborhood Reinvestment 
Corporation; and Frank Q. Nebeker, Chief Judge, United States Court of 
Veterans Appeals.
  Subcommittee will meet again on Thursday, March 17.
BANK REGULATORY CONSOLIDATION
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: On Friday, March 4, 
Committee continued hearings on proposed legislation to consolidate 
certain Federal agencies which regulate and supervise depository 
institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 
receiving testimony from Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the 
United States, General Accounting Office; District of Columbia 
Councilwoman Charlene Drew Jarvis; Thomas Schatz, Citizens Against 
Government Waste; and Wolfgang Reinicke, Brookings Institution, all of 
Washington, D.C.; James R. Barth, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama; 
and R. Dan Brumbaugh, San Francisco, California.
  Hearings continue on Wednesday, March 9.
1995 BUDGET
Committee on the Budget: On Friday, March 4, Committee continued 
hearings in preparation for reporting the first concurrent resolution 
on the fiscal year 1995 budget for the Federal Government, focusing on 
21st Century goals for American schools, receiving testimony from 
Senator Jeffords; Marshall S. Smith, Under Secretary of Education; 
Jacqueline Hess, National Demonstration Laboratory for Interactive 
Information Technologies; Michael Casserly, Council for Great City 
Schools; Robert McIntyre, Citizens for Tax Justice; Emily Feistritzer, 
National Center for Education Information; and Lewis Perelman, 
Discovery Institute, all of Washington, D.C.; and Mary Fulton, 
Education Commission of the States; and John Myers, New Directions in 
Education Policy, both of Denver, Colorado.
  Committee will meet again on Wednesday, March 9.
VIDEO GAME RATING SYSTEM
Committee on Governmental Affairs: On Friday, March 4, Subcommittee on 
Regulation and Government Information concluded joint hearings with the 
Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice to 
examine the system of rating video games, focusing on the effects of 
violence in video games, after receiving testimony from Representative 
Lantos; Jack Heistand, Electronic Arts, San Mateo, California; Howard 
C. Lincoln, Nintendo of America, Inc., Redmond, Washington; Edward A. 
Volkwein, SEGA of America, Inc., Redwood City, California; Chuck Kerby, 
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, Arkansas; John Sullivan, Toys ``R'' 
Us, Inc., Paramus, New Jersey; Mary P. Evans, Babbage's, Inc., Dallas, 
Texas; R.A. Green III, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, on behalf of the 
Amusement and Music Operators Association; and Steve Koenigsberg, 
Baltimore, Maryland, on behalf of the American Amusement Machine 
Association.